Psalm 104:24-35

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²⁴O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In ^(A)wisdom have you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵Here is the sea, great and wide,
    ^(B)which teems with creatures innumerable,
    living things both small and great.
²⁶There go the ships,
    and ^(C)Leviathan, which you formed to ^(D)play in it.^[a]

²⁷These ^(E)all look to you,
    to ^(F)give them their food in due season.
²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it up;
    when you ^(G)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
²⁹When you ^(H)hide your face, they are ^(I)dismayed;
    when you ^(J)take away their breath, they die
    and ^(K)return to their dust.
³⁰When you ^(L)send forth your Spirit,^[b] they are created,
    and you ^(M)renew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the Lord ^(N)endure forever;
    may the Lord ^(O)rejoice in his works,
³²who looks on the earth and it ^(P)trembles,
    who ^(Q)touches the mountains and they smoke!
³³I will sing to the Lord ^(R)as long as I live;
    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
³⁴May my ^(S)meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵Let ^(T)sinners be consumed from the earth,
    and let the wicked be no more!
^(U)Bless the Lord, O my soul!
^(V)Praise the Lord!

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Footnotes

Psalm 104:26 Or you formed to play with
Psalm 104:30 Or breath

Ephesians 1:3-14

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Spiritual Blessings in Christ

³^(A)Blessed be ^(B)the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing ^(C)in the heavenly places, ⁴^(D)even as he ^(E)chose us in him ^(F)before the foundation of the world, that we should be ^(G)holy and blameless before him. In love ⁵^(H)he predestined us^[a] for ^(I)adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, ^(J)according to the purpose of his will, ⁶^(K)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in ^(L)the Beloved. ⁷^(M)In him we have ^(N)redemption ^(O)through his blood, ^(P)the forgiveness of our trespasses, ^(Q)according to the riches of his grace, ⁸which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight ⁹^(R)making known^[b] to us the mystery of his will, ^(S)according to his purpose, which he ^(T)set forth in Christ^[c] ¹⁰as a plan for ^(U)the fullness of time, ^(V)to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth in him.

¹¹In him we have obtained ^(W)an inheritance, ^(X)having been predestined ^(Y)according to the purpose of him who works all things according to ^(Z)the counsel of his will, ¹²so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be ^(AA)to the praise of his glory. ¹³In him you also, when you heard ^(AB)the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, ^(AC)were sealed with the ^(AD)promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴who is ^(AE)the guarantee^[d] of our ^(AF)inheritance until ^(AG)we acquire ^(AH)possession of it,^[e] ^(AI)to the praise of his glory.